In a recent study, it was found that the mortality rate increases amongst cocaine users in the warmer months. When cocaine is used, it raises the internal body temperature. When temperatures begin to exceed 74 degrees Fahrenheit and a person ingests cocaine, the temperature of the core body exceeds even higher. The study found a significant relation between the climate temperature and accidental overdose fatality for users where the overdoses were due in whole or in part to cocaine but not for non-cocaine overdoses. Risk of accidental overdose death increases even more as the ambient temperatures rise. This heat-related mortality amongst cocaine users presents a considerable public health concern and one that more awareness should be made. If you know of a friend or a loved one in this high-risk category, make them aware of the dangers of using cocaine on warmer days. You may not be able to get them to stop, seek treatment, and even making them aware of the increased risk may not change their using patterns, but if it saves one life, it is worth the effort.
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It makes sense to me, but then, I'm not a user. I doubt that this scientific evidence would give any cocaine addict cause for pause. They just don't care about anything but the 'fix'.
ReplyDeleteDo they want to be saved? Something tells me that they really don't care. I guess it's up to the rest of us to watch over them.
ReplyDeleteI've taken coke a few times. I sure never knew it raised the body temperature like that. It gets over a hundred in the shade here regularly. I guess I'll be more careful about using it outside in the heat of the day.
ReplyDeleteMy college roommate was working on building up stamina and was to spend a week hiking and camping in the desert. I didn't even know he used cocaine but he must have used it during the day and he suffered heat stroke. Had he been anywhere else but the middle of the desert he might have survived. When he didn't return as expected some of us went looking and found him dead.
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